Dennis Byrne (71) suffered a broken hip when he fell backwards, trying to fix a curtain at his home in Mandeni.
He was admitted to Stanger Hospital on September 19 but could not be operated on until his sodium levels were high enough.
His fiancé, Anna Victor, does not have a car and out of desperation contacted the Courier when she hit wall after wall when trying to get updates on her partner’s condition.
Victor said hospital staff were rude over the phone, did not make any effort to obtain information for her and, after two weeks in hospital, claimed they did not know who he was.
